luupgrade and lucreeate command is used to migrate UFS root file system to ZFS file system.
If you need to upgrade Solaris distribution from u8 to u9 then you need to use or JumpStart or upgrade using DVD
this statement is wrong. the "liveupgrade" utility is specialy for doing upgrades in all forms possible! including major and minor solaris upgrades and also for patching! and "luupgrade" is the command you need for this. you can also use the cli-tool (lu) for having a more "graphical" aproach.
In order to upgrade to Sol10_910 through live upgrade, you can follow the below procedure.
Remove below LU packages.
application SUNWlucfg Live Upgrade Configuration
application SUNWlur Live Upgrade (root)
application SUNWluu Live Upgrade (usr)
application SUNWluzone Live Upgrade (zones support) [If zones are there]
Apply the above packages from the Sol10_910 dump you have.
When we are upgrading to a higher Solaris 10 update then we have to apply the LU packages from that release media to get the new features otherwise the creation of new Boot Environment will fail, you can refer to the link http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/821-0438/gdzpq/index.html
Also, with every release media there is liveupgrade20 script which removes the old LU packages and installs them, so we can use this also.